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Innovation
What is innovation?
After brainstorming sessions organised by NPCC, the productivity committee on innovation came up with four definitions:
- Innovation is a process of reflection, planning and implementation of new
products, processes or knowledge that applies to a given context (such as
individual, organisation, society) and answers a need or brings improvement.
- An action giving rise to a new idea, process or product for which there
is a useful application
- L’innovation est une action qui vient changer tout savoir-faire ou
technologie établie au profit de la communauté
- Toute amélioration ou invention susceptible d’apporter un supplément
de valeur ajoutée à ce qu’on a l’habitude de faire.(Any
improvement or invention likely to add value to what we use to do)
Productivity Committee on innovation
NPCC and innovation
The challenge facing corporations in Mauritius is to innovate or evaporate,
to use innovation to convert ideas into Better Living for the Nation through
enhanced competitiveness.
Several activities have been organized by the NPCC since January 2001 to promote
innovation at all levels and in all sectors of the economy. It is time now to
take innovation at the national level with the setting up of a Mauritius Innovation
System (MIS)
Why innovation?
• The key ingredient for future economic prosperity
• Productivity and growth in employment
• A precondition for maintaining competitiveness
• For continuous change
Establishing a Mauritius Innovation System
Four working groups were set up on the 25th September 2002 during a roundtable
in view of working out a Mauritius Innovation System namely
-Innovation and Agro-Industry
-Innovation and Socio-Economic Development
-Framework for promoting Creativity and Innovation
-Innovation and Education
Projects
The project targets different age groups with the aim to foster creative thinking,
creative problem solving and self-fulfillment for an innovative nation. A technical
committee was set up to work out the criteria of innovation in order to assess
or acknowledge innovation and to deliver an innovation mark to recognize and
reward organizations-private and public-that can demonstrate how innovation,
in any aspect of the business, has resulted in an improvement in the lives of
the people it serves.
Innovation for the Education Sector(InnovEd) is a joint Ministry of Education & Human Resources (MOE& HR) and National Productivity and Competitiveness Council (NPCC) Project, which was launched in 2005. The goal is to promote critical thinking and problem solving, creativity and innovation among students.
Participants are required come up with innovative projects which can be in the form of drawings, models or prototypes. All the students will have the chance to showcase their exhibits and win recognitions.
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The separation of the two jobs [chairman and CEO] goes to the heart of the conception of the corporation. Is a company a sandbox for the CEO, or is the CEO an employee? If he?s an employee, he needs a boss, and that boss is the board. The chairman runs the board. How can the CEO be his own boss? - Andrew S. Grove, chairman, Intel Corp.
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